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Apache Polaris is the open source metadata catalog for the data lakehouse — a vendor-neutral implementation of the Iceberg REST Catalog spec. In this episode, Rich Bowen speaks with PMC members Jean-Baptiste Onofré (Dremio) and Yufei Gu (Snowflake) about how two competing companies came together un…

Rich Bowen speaks with Jinwoo Huang about Apache Geode, the distributed in-memory data management platform that delivers low-latency, scalable data access for high-performance applications. In a rare story of open source revival, Jinwoo describes how Geode — originally born as GemFire in 2002 and d…

Tim Saucer, PMC member and primary maintainer of Apache DataFusion’s Python bindings, joins PlusOne to talk about how he went from frustrated Spark user to open source maintainer — and how the project is using LLM-powered “skills” to keep its Python API in full parity with the ups…

Andrew Lamb, PMC Chair of Apache DataFusion, explains how this open source query engine lets teams build specialized analytic databases without reinventing SQL from scratch. We cover how DataFusion grew out of Apache Arrow, why it split into its own top-level project, how it attracted nearly 1,000 …

In the March board meeting, the Apache Software Foundation seated a new board of directors, which included three new members. Emmanuel Lecharny has been around the ASF for a long time, but this is his first term on the board. He discusses some of his backstory, and his priorities for this board ter…

In the March board meeting, the Apache Software Foundation seated a new board of directors, which included three new members. One of them, Chris Dutz, had served a few terms before. In this interview, he talks about his priorities for the coming year on the board. The ASF Board – https://www…

Apache Grails recently graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level Apache project. But it’s far from a new project, having been started 20 years ago! James Fredley, and James Daugherty from the Grails PMC talk about why they came to Apache, along with many other topics. https://…

A chat with several Airflow community members – Amogh Desai, Jarek Potiuk, Jens Scheffler and Rajesh Bishundeo – about the Airflow 3.x release, building collaborative community, and working with a broad set of vendors. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Airflow3x.mp3 …

In this interview, Dave Fisher talks about the Tooling effort, which he heads, and the specific projects they’ll be working on. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DaveFisherTooling.mp3 Prefer video? That’s on YouTube. More info: Tooling: https://tooling.apache.or…